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+************************
+Spell Check Dictionaries
+************************
+
+.. _Enchant: https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
+.. _Free Desktop: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/
+
+Spell checking is provided by the Enchant_ library. Depending on your operating system, it may or
+may not load all installed spell check dictionaries automatically.
+
+
+Linux and MacOS
+===============
+
+On Linux and MacOS, you generally only have to install hunspell, aspell or myspell dictionaries on
+your system like you do for other applications. See your distro or OS documentation for how to do
+this. These dictionaries should show up as available spell check languages in novelWriter.
+
+
+Windows
+=======
+
+For Windows, English is included with the installation. For other languages you have to download
+and add dictionaries yourself.
+
+**Install Tool**
+
+A small tool to assist with this can be found under **Tools > Add Dictionaries**. It will import
+spell checking dictionaries from Free Office or Libre Office extensions. The dictionaries are then
+installed in the install location for the Enchant library and should thus work for any application
+that uses Enchant for spell checking.
+
+**Manual Install**
+
+If you prefer to do this manually or want to use a different source than the ones mentioned above,
+You need to get compatible dictionary files for your language. You need two files files ending with
+``.aff`` and ``.dic``. These files must then be copied to the following location: 
+
+``C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\enchant\hunspell``
+
+This assumes your user profile is stored at ``C:\Users\<USER>``. The last one or two folders may
+not exist, so you may need to create them.
+
+You can find the various dictionaries on the `Free Desktop`_ website.
+
+.. note::
+
+   The Free Desktop link points to a repository, and what may look like file links inside the
+   dictionary folder are actually links to web pages. If you right-click and download those, you
+   get HTML files, not dictionaries!
+
+   In order to download the actual dictionary files, right-click the "plain" label at the end of
+   each line and download that.